The blue economy covers a range of traditional and emerging sectors that are essential sources of food, energy, health and leisure for people throughout the world. The blue economy is growing fast and attracting investment worldwide. However, businesses often remain unsustainable. Illegal fishin...
Forests cover over a third of the total land area of Europe. In recent years, large forest fires have repeatedly affected Europe, in particular the Mediterranean countries. Fire danger is influenced by weather in the short term, and by climate when considering longer time intervals. In this work...
The Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) provides alerts and preliminary impact estimations of the natural disasters around the world, like earthquakes, tsunami, tropical cyclones and floods. The Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are among the most damaging events. They affect the populat...
The IUFRO Conference on Remote Sensing and Forest Monitoring will be held at the Center of Ecological Education of the Warsaw Agricultural University, Rogów, Poland, 1-3 June 1999. Conference Objectives: Review the state-of-the-art of remote sensing as a tool of forest monitoring and inventory a...
A workshop was held at RCMRD, the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi 19th -23rd October 2015 under the aegis of the ReCaREDD project, which is funded by DG DEVCO. Both RCMRD and their partner ICPAC have a long standing collaborations with the JRC are the main actor...
The objective of the study was to carry out an evaluation of the positive and negative, direct and indirect impacts of the 2014-2020 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) on biodiversity, habitats and landscapes in areas under the direct influence of the CAP, including protected habitats, using causa...
The circular economy is rapidly rising up political and business agendas. In contrast to today’s largely linear, ‘take-make-use-dispose’ economy, a circular economy represents a development strategy that enables economic growth while aiming to optimise the chain of consumption of biological and ...
The objective of this Commission Staff Working Document containing guidelines on best practice to limit, mitigate or compensate for soil sealing is to provide information on the magnitude of soil sealing in the European Union (EU), its impacts and examples of best practice. Such best practice ex...
In many Asian cultures the tiger tops the lion as the king of all beasts. Symbolising power and strength, it also holds the potential for great violence and destruction. Asia's rich natural tapestry treads an equally fine balance, defining whether its people and communities simply survive or are...
Natural and man-made disasters affect the lives of European citizens, the European economy and the environment every year. Whether of natural or man-made origin, disasters are becoming increasingly extreme and complex, exacerbated by the impacts of climate change in our interlinked economies, an...